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DARK MEMORIES
Holocaust Museum Houston presents an exhibition
on the Nazi campaign against homosexuals
Paragraph 175, the melancholy 1999 documentary
directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman,
recounted the systemic attacks on and imprisonment
of gay men by the German National Socialist regime.
As the film explained, men who survived the work
camps and concentration camps were not necessarily
free after the war, driven underground by the
notorious antigay legislation of the film’s
title. Some were even forced to serve out their
Nazi-imposed sentences.
On June 11, the Holocaust Museum Houston illuminates
this chapter in our history when it opens Nazi
Persecution of Homosexuals 1933–1945. Through
photographs and documents from the collection
of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
the exhibition examines the history of the Nazi
attempt to eradicate homosexuality across the
Reich. The exhibition continues through September
19.
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